Long URLs break when ctrl-clicked or copied in terminal due to line wrapping

Problem

When Claude Code outputs long URLs in the terminal, they get line-wrapped based on the terminal width. This causes two issues:

1. Ctrl-click to open the URL in a browser only captures the portion up to the line break, resulting in a truncated URL (404).
2. Copy-paste of the URL includes line breaks and fragments, producing a broken URL.

This is especially common with product links, GitHub URLs, documentation links, etc. — anything longer than ~80 characters.

Expected behavior

URLs should be clickable and copyable regardless of terminal width. Possible solutions:

• Use OSC 8 hyperlink escape sequences to wrap URLs so terminals render them as clickable links with short display text
• Shorten the display text while keeping the full URL in the hyperlink metadata
• Detect terminal width and avoid breaking URLs mid-line (e.g., place them on their own line with no wrapping)

Environment

• Windows 11, PowerShell terminal
• Claude Code CLI
• Issue is terminal-agnostic (affects Windows Terminal, VS Code integrated terminal, etc.)

Reproduction

1. Ask Claude Code a question that produces a long URL (e.g., a product link or documentation URL)
2. Resize the terminal window so it's not full width
3. Try to ctrl-click or copy the URL — it will be truncated or broken

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